ITALIANS BEAT BACK FIERCE MASS DRIVES; Austrian Troops Fight Desperately, but in Vain, to Recapture Heights of Vodice.TOWNS IN ITALY RAIDED Airmen Drop Incendiary Bombs onUdine and Cervignano, but Damage Is Reported as Slight. AUSTRIAN LOSSES TERRIBLE. Italians Say Hindenburg Is Trying to Keep Them from Public. SAYS ITALY SAVED ALLIES. Mission Member Recalls Her Intervention at Crises of the War.

ROME, June 1.-Violent efforts were made by the Austrians last night to ragain some of the ground they lost in the Italian offensive. Austrian masses attacking in the Vodice area were firmly met and the attack failed completely the War Office announced today in the following bulletin:View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on June 2, 1917, on Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: ITALIANS BEAT BACK FIERCE MASS DRIVES; Austrian Troops Fight Desperately, but in Vain, to Recapture Heights of Vodice.TOWNS IN ITALY RAIDED Airmen Drop Incendiary Bombs onUdine and Cervignano, but Damage Is Reported as Slight. AUSTRIAN LOSSES TERRIBLE. Italians Say Hindenburg Is Trying to Keep Them from Public. SAYS ITALY SAVED ALLIES. Mission Member Recalls Her Intervention at Crises of the War. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe